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Homes in Hercules, Calif. Mortgage rates rose for a fourth straight week, reaching the highest level since December 2000.

Mortgage rates reach highs last seen in 2000

The average for a 30-year fixed loan was 7.49 percent, up from 7.31 percent last week, Freddie Mac said in a statement Thursday.

St. Regis developer looks to jump-start lackluster condo sales
After a slow start, the developer has lined up new financing and brought in a high-powered marketing firm.

From $16 million to $4.1 million: What a downtown office building sale signals about Boston’s real estate market
The sale could be a warning of the possible distress facing much of the city’s older office stock.

A developer proposed nearly 500 apartments on South Shore Plaza. Then residents killed it.

A plan for what would have been Braintree’s largest apartment project ran into a buzz saw of neighborhood opposition.

Barstool Sports founder Dave Portnoy buys Nantucket estate for $42 million, a record price
The 1.2-acre estate has three dwellings with private beach access.

Despite objections, BPDA OKs Charlestown plan
The new zoning plan will guide large-scale redevelopment around Sullivan Square.

Big lab space — and a supermarket — could soon come alongside Southie convention center
Two teams filed bids for the six acres, which are spread across three empty MCCA-owned lots on D and E streets in the shadow of the Boston Convention & Exhibition Center.

City Council greenlights Wu’s hike to affordable housing requirement
The new policy would require that developers carve out 17 percent of new rental buildings at income-restricted affordable rents, with an additional 3 percent set aside for Section 8 voucher holders.

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The proposed residential tower is located across Mystic Avenue from the MBTA Orange Line Sullivan Square station.

In Sullivan Square, big changes coming before the BPDA this week

The Boston Planning and Development Agency board is set to vote on two major projects and a master plan for fast-changing Sullivan Square. 4:46 p.m.

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Home of the Week: In Northborough raised ranch, ‘76 gets eighty-sixed

Property comes with three bedrooms, 2.5 baths, and a decidedly upscale mountain retreat feel. 10:04 a.m.

State Rep. Mike Connolly at the State House received notice that his petition to lift the statewide ban on rent control was certified by Attorney General Andrea Campbell on Sept 6.

As progressives split on rent control tactics, ballot campaign pushes ahead

A progressive state lawmaker is forging ahead with a bid to bring rent control back to Massachusetts — despite opposition from within his own movement. 4:20 p.m.

Massport designated a team led by The Community Builders to develop a 200-unit apartment tower off D Street in the Seaport. All units would be income-restricted, a first for the pricey neighborhood.

Affordable housing in the Seaport? That’s the plan.

Massport has tapped a Boston-based developer to build a 200-unit, income-restricted apartment building on a Massport site on D Street. 9:41 a.m.

LabCentral, a shared laboratory space for biotech startups, in Kendall Square.

Demand for life sciences lab space has slowed in Boston area and nationally, report says

Real estate giant JLL depicted an overbuilt market that is forcing building owners, who only recently commanded top dollar for premium lab space, to reduce rents and scramble for tenants. 11:11 a.m.

The new John A. Volpe National Transportation Systems Center in Kendall Square

New Volpe Transportation Center opens as part of $750 million deal between MIT and feds

The new transportation center is the first building to open in a mixed-use development in Kendall Square that will include research labs, retail, affordable housing, and open space. 9:06 a.m.

An apartment building in Quincy under construction in 2019.

Home prices are dropping in some places. Not Greater Boston.

August was one of the slowest months for the region’s housing market in recent decades, but our housing shortage is so acute that prices are still near record highs. 2:57 p.m.

A view of the outdoor roof patio at One Congress, a 43-story, 1 million-square-foot office tower that's the new headquarters of State Street Corp. and InterSystems, a medical software and data management company. Law firm K&L Gates will also have an office there.

One Congress, Boston’s newest skyscraper, makes its debut

State Street Corp. will eventually occupy 27 floors across the 43-story, 1 million-square-foot skyscraper, and law firm K&L Gates and software company InterSystems will also call the tower home. 4:19 p.m.